The answer lies in gaining enough awareness of your emotions so you can recognize something is wrong. With this information, you can make appropriate decisions to safely move forward in life.

It’s highly unusual for someone to sit in a stalled vehicle in the night in the middle of a busy road like Stacey did without any concern whatsoever. It’s far more likely that someone in that situation would do everything possible to prevent disaster from occurring.

Unlike Stacey’s situation, a real to life scenario would include negative emotions and be similar to the following.

With almost no warning, Janine’s vehicle stops cold.

Her black Toyota SUV is instantly and completely invisible in the dark night.

Frightened by the thought that in only seconds a tragic collision would likely end her life along with the oncoming travelers, she desperately pumps her brakes thinking possibly the brake lights might glow making her vehicle visible. She pumps them once, twice, and again for what seems to be a thousand times.

Knowing it’s not only her life at stake, and with a hope that she could spare others lives,

Bravely, Janine chooses to remain in the SUV pumping her brakes rather than climbing out to secure her own safety. If she had she clung to her negative emotions she would have panicked and become unable to think clearly, putting herself and others in further jeopardy.

In her rear view mirror she sees a racing cluster of head lights swerving to the left just in time to miss her.

Then a pause in traffic.

In the next breath, another string of vehicles switching lanes barely avoiding her.

In dread, Janine continues pumping the brakes hoping a glow of light will save lives with its warning.

Just as lungs need air to sustain life, so Janine and those behind her need light.

A life-light.

Within minutes, miraculously, a driver pulls up behind Janine’s SUV. Its dazzling lights shining from inside the car’s windshield, flinging a multitude of lights onto her vehicle, and diverting traffic into the passing lane.